Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1925 — Page 6

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SOMETHING FOR EVER YONE IN LOCAL MOVIE THEATERS Drama, Comedy, Sea Story and Super - Western Listed on Film Program. Nobody shoulct\have any trouble finding the type of picture they like in the local movie housse next week. Seldom is there such a variety to choose from. The Circle is presenting a double bill, the movie feature being “Just a Woman,” an adaptation of the stage play of Eugene Walters. Paul Biese, one of the recognized leaders in the jazz band business, will present his orchestra as the musical feature. At the Ohio will be seen a comedy, “Marry Me,” the latest production of James Cruze. N

A picturization of a popular Zane Grey western story, “Light of the Western Stars,” is at the Apollo. House Peters is featured in “Head Winds,” a tale of the South Seas, at the Colonial. Fred is the cowboy hero at the Isis. •1- -I- -ITWO FEATURES AT THE CIRCLE Claire Windsor and Conway Tearle In “Just a Woman,” will share honors next week at the Circle Theater with Paul Biese and his Champion Victor Recording Orchestra, one of the most prominent jazz orchestras in the country. “Just a Woman” is adapted from the Eugene Walters’ stage play of the same name, and presents Miss Windsor and Mr. Tearle in the roles of Jane and Robert Holton, happily married and living with their 2- ?ar-old son, Bobby, in a little r.iih.ng town in Pennsylvania, where Robert is foreman of a mill. With them lives George Rand, a poor inventive genius. George, deeply in debt, falls behind in his board and offera Jane a half interest in an invention which he is seeking to perfect. Jane accepts and sponsors him in the purchase of materials for his laboratory experiments. Valuable patents are secured by Rand pn the process, and through the invention they, attain great wealth, Jane and Robert sharing equally in the porflts with Rand. Success is too much for Robert, however, who becomes enamoured of an actress, whom he is anxious to marry- How the actress plans to separate the husband and wife and Jane, makes a great sacrifice in order to retain the custody of Bobby, and gains true happiness, is told in this dramatic Btory. Percy Marmont is seen in the role of George Rand, Rorothy Revere as the actress, and Dorothy Brock if, the child. Paul Biese and his Champion Victor R icording Orchestra is recognized from coast to coast as one of the most popular of the dance orchestras, and has been featured in many of the leading theatres of the country. Biese was one of the pioneers among the "jazz band” organizers and enjoys the distinction of having been one of the first to gain prominence in this field of music. Mr. Biese is a saxophonist, and has a diamond studded saxophone bearing his name. He and his band will appear four times daily all week. Lloyd Hamilton comedy, the Circle News and “The Voice of the Nightingale,” a fable in natural col-, ore, complete the program. -I- -I- -IAPOLLO SHOWS BIG WESTERN. The clash between desperate outj laws and the law abiding element ! in the vast cattle country of South- ! m Arizona pro video the parallel of ! destruction and progrsse in the ; building of the West, and is brought out In "Light of the Western Stars,” the screen version of the Zane Grey 1 novel which will be shown at the Apollo next week. Filmed under the direction of W. K. Howard who gained fame as the producer of "The Thundering Herd,” and featuring a cast including Jack Holt, Billie Dove, Noah Beery and Alma Bennett. "Light of the Western Stars,” is essentioally an ad-venturous-drama of action, with a compelling love interest that takes the most unexpected turns. When Gene Stewart, a dashing cowboy noted for his daring exploits, makes a vow during a rollicking spree to marry the first girl who alights from the transcontinental

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Movie Empire Norma Talmadge Empire builder! Not that she goes around discovering new continents, or anything like that. But in the last few- weeks she has done something requiring fully as much mental effort. In nine weeks she created a kingdom. Cattles were built to her order and furnished by her direction. A coat of arms and a national emblem came out of her brain to become reality. She fashioned a national flag to wave over the battlements—not in the manner of the revered Betsy Ross, perhaps; but she did it with a pencil and a box of colored crayons. Three regiments of soldiers were garbed in uniforms she helped design and approved. Customs and conventions of a royal court that never existed were mapped out. A gbld silver service with the royal crest was made to her order. The picture, as you may already have guessed, is “Graustark.”

train at El Ca.ion he little dreams of the exciting things that are to 'follow. For across the mountain tange terror has descended upop the peaceful town' of Miranaonte —terror wrought by Brand, a notorious bandit who has ridden in with his followers to pillage and slay. And Stewart is to come to death grips with Brand over the girl Madeline Hammond, who happens to arrive at the time of Stewart’s madcap vow. That is the beginning of the plot which sweeps along to a climax through an amazing series of melodramatic situations involving gunfighting. kidnaping, cattle-rustling and deeds of heroism. The program will contain an A1 St, Tohn comedy “Fares Please,” the Few news week ly, and novel musical entertainment by Emil Seidel and his Orchestra and Ear! Gordon, org^^ist. -I- -f- -INEW CRUZE PICTURE AT THE OHIO The comedy success “Marry Me," will head the program at the Ohio theater the coming week. It is the screen version of the play “The Nest Egg,” a Broadway success by Anne Caldwell. James Cruze is responsible for the direction of “Marrj Me,” which features Florence Vidor, Edward Everett Morton, John Roche, Helen Jerome Eddy, Fanny Midgley, Ed Brady, Z. Wall Covington, Anne Schaefer and Erwin Connelly. Lige Conley is the leading player in “Wide Awake,” the comedy attraction. A news weekly is an added film feature. The Charlie Davis Orchestra will be heard in a program of current song hits, featuring a number by Cy Milders. Lester Huff, organist, will be heard in another of his compositions for the organ on timely topics. “Marry Me,” tells of Hetty Gandy, a pretty school teacher who is spending her vacation in a small New England town where she meets and falls in love with another boarder, John Smith. On the night Hetty has promised to set the date for their marriage, she is forced to 'eave by her grandmother’s illness and does not see John Smith again. True to her promise she writes the date upon an egg and instructs the hired girl to give it to John for breakfast. Unfortunately the egg finds it way into a crate being

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packed for market and John never knows that Hetty did not deliberately run away. Five years later Hetty is still waiting to hear from him when she receives a telegram signed John Smith, but it is not the original John Smith. -I- -I- -ICOLONIAL OFFERS SEA DRAMA It is a strange cargo that House Peters, as “skipper” John Peter Rosslyn, in his newest starring vehicle, with Patsy Ruth Miller, “Head Winds,” - coming to the Colonial theater next week carries with him to sea. He oalled it “the love cargo,” but Patricia Van Pelt, the “human baggoge,” denied that it was “love,” with the explanation that “she was a cargo by force.” Believing herself the wife of one man, Patricia Van Pelt, as played by Patsy Ruth Miller, awoke one morning to find that she had “been married off to John Peter Rosslyn by mistake.” She finds herself aboard a yacht, manned exclusively by Orientals, headed for the open Jea. Out of sight of land, Patricia Van Pelt, society belle and daughter of the rich, finds ror the first time in her life that she is confronted with a situation that she cannot cope with, either “through the power of her purse,” or the charm of her vivaciousness The supporting cast include Arthur Hoyt/ William Austin, Ricard Travers, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Togo Vamamato, George Kuwa and K. Nambu. Supplementary features include a Charles Puffy comedy, an Aesop Fable and a news reel. The musical program will bo furnished by the American Harmonists. -!- •!• + COWBOY COMEDY AT ISIS “The Bandit’s Baby," Fred Thompson’s latest starring vehicle, which -will be on view' at the Isis the first half of next week, gets away from the beaten path of western pictures in that it is more comedy than melodrama. The story revolves around a baby show In a western town, where the proud fathers each expect their respective offspring to win the capital prize, and are willing to back up their claims with gun play if necessary. And then when the bandit alone has the courage to act as judge, and is later burdened with a baby after he has escaped from the sheriff’s posse, the real fun begins. Thompson, cast a* Tom Bailey, the bandit, with his famous horse, Silver King, is much in evidence from start to finish. The program will contain a Larry Semon comedy, entitled “The Dome Doctor.” The Thursday change will bring Shirley Mason in "The Scarlet Honeymoon,” a drama of youth, love and mystery, written by Fanny Davis and directed by Alan Hale. It provides Miss Mason with the role of a pretty stenographer who is suddenly confronted with a most ysxtraodrinary problem. “Step Fast,” a Jimmy Adams comedy, will be added. WOULD THEY VOTE THIS WAY? Chances are that if children who act In movies were to vote on the most popular director, James Cruze would run a close race with Herbert Brenon, the maker of “Peter Pan.” In Cruze's latest Paramount offering "Marry Me!” a dozen children appear in a classroom sequence, and some of them were reported to have cried at being obliged to leave the director.

Pony Express Following the final reading of the script for “The Pony Express,” which he will make for Paramount, James Cruze began production June 29 at Sacramento. In the past month a large force of carpenters, masons, and electricians have been busy outside of the city erecting sets representing Sacramento as It appeared In 1860. Walter Woods, Cruze’s production manager and Henry James Forman, former editor of Collier's Weekly are the authors of the story. The cast features Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence and Wallace Beery.

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1 — Claire Windsor looking sweet and motherly. She is featured in “Just a Wonsan,” at the Circle next week. 2 Florence Vidor and Edward Horton in a scene from "Marry

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Nothing pleases Mom better than to have her great trunk massaged. After the process she will squirm around just like a puppy dog who has had his nose rubbed—asking for more. That’s what she wants Kinko the clown to do and why she has her trunk elevated toward him. Both Mom and Kinko are troupers with the Sells-Floto circus, the second largest show on earth, which will come to Indianapolis on Monday, July 6. There are thr*>e herds of elephants with the circus, and half a hundred clowns will make the fun for the crowds under the big top on circus day. There will be a parade leavnig the show grounds as near 9:30 as possible. The downtown ticket of fice will be at the Claypool drug store.

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T T ERE is a tremendous drama of straying husbands and watchful wives. A A The ttory of a man’s rise to fame and fortune and the part his wife played. This is a Picture That Will Linger in Your Memory —i.i ■ On the Stage . *r paiii Riper "rr Them All JIJ ff, JL| fj Mdl Saxophonist —And His— - CHAMPION VICTOR RECORDING ORCHESTRA 10 -NATIONALLY FAMOUS ARTISTS- 10

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Me,” the new Crnze production, at the Ohio. 3 I suspect this is hero, heroine and villain. Jack Holt, Billie Dove and Noah Beery in "The Light of Western Stars,” at the Apollo. 4 Betty Compson and Raymond

Shubert News

Before the faculty and students of the Wilbur Institute of Applied Psychology, Willie Howard, com-edian-star of "Sky High,” at the Casino Theatre, made his debut recently as a lecturer. Mr. Howard spoke on ’The Mechanism of Laughter.” and when he had concluded his talk, he was tumultously applauded. One of the features of the exhibition of the Theatrical Hall of Fame held recently at the Library, was a display of pictures distributed years ago with cigarettes. Among the players represented in this gallery was Mina Crolius Gleason, mother of Jaqjes Gleason, the actor-author now appearing In “Is Zat So?” ht Chanin's Theater. The comedian-playwright, moved by sen-

New Thriller at Broad Ripple

There has bepn an array of vaudeville and circus acts offered in the open-air theater at Broad Ripple Park this season, but probably the biggest thriller of them all will be the Fearless Greggs, who open a week’s engagement Sunday afternoon in their hazardous act, which they call “Autos That Pass in the Air." The Greggs work on an Incline, specially built for the act. in which two regulation automobiles are used. The autos are driven down the Incline at a terrific rate of speed, the one driven by Gregg shoots high in the air. turns three complete somersaults and alights on the receiving platform Just behind the car driven by his sister, who drives her ma-

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Griffith, to be seen at the Palace. 6 —Fred Thompson as he appears In his latest picture, to be seen at the Isis the first half of the week. 6 —This sailor man is House Peters as he looks in “Head Wind.V at the Colonial.

timent, has offered a reward ot $25 for one of the prints. Since the Willie Howard musical comedy “Sky High," moved to the Casino Theater two weeks ago, the theater has been noticeably cooler than In former summers. Investigation of the source of this coolness traced It to the rain-storm which is the accompaniment of "Let It Rain,” the song-hit of “Sky High.” Howard Marsh, who sings the title role in "The Student Prince,” at Jolson’s Theater, has received a letter from the Burgomeister of Heidelberg, the town in which the famous German University is located and about whose locale the play centers, offering him the freedom of that city. So successful is the Chicago company of 'ls Zat So?,” headed by Richard Taber, co-author of the comedy, that the play has been moved from the Adelphi to the

chine beneath him. The act consists of ten people, who travel in a special car. It requires five baggage wagons to transport their paraphernalia. The tigging on which the act is presented is equipped with an electric tower and has eight powerful searchlights, to give the proper light on the incline. At the bathing beach arrangements have been made for a number of aquatic contests between local swimmers and divers, fdr which suitable prizes will be awarded by the park management. Prize dances at the dance garden, whpre Connie’s Orchestra furnishes the music, will be another pleasing feature.

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Princess Theatre to permit of a larger seating capacity. The New York company playing at the Chanln Theater, has entered upon its sixth month. Because of the magnitude of their latest revue, "Artists and Models, Paris Edition,” which opened hist Wednesday at the Winter Garden, the Messrs. Shubert have engaged two musical directors for this production. Alfred Goodman, who wrote several of the songs in this revue, will conduct ull the numbers with the exception of the dances executed by the "Eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls," when Max Hoffman, the noted musical director and husband of the celebrated dancer, will wield the baton.

wwm sxrumMrßmiNG post '%Em E&329OP’ story andmnrl MEAD WINDS* * AMStNCLAUt wax. TTERE’S a monumental epic of the stormy sees, rulminating in the moat thrilling shipwreck ever filmed. The story of a spitfire beauty with a million dollar temper, who bossed everything and everybody—until a six-foot blue water man with an iron will kidnaped her, and whom she woke up she was miles at sea and a wlfo. And then the fun began. Enough comedy and thrills to entertain you highly. The Pacific fleet was called to her resaua, OUR SUPPLEMENTAL BILL OF SNAPPY FEATURES CHARLES PUFFY’S "^ T “A LUCKY ACCIDENT” COLONIAL NEWS—AERO PR FABLES AMERICAN HARMONISTS A REAL BAND OF ENTERTAINERS. FRANK OWENS FLOYD THOMPSON VIRGILMONKS Popular Tenor Comedy Songs Piano Soloist LARRY GOMERDINGER. XYLOPHONIST COLONIAL* PICK O' THE PICTURES —MUSIC THAT CHARMS I

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Keith Notes

None other than Anne Nichols, whose profits from "Able'a Irish Rose" are putting her rapidly In th * Rockefeller clase, has written the playlet In which Fiske O'Hara, the popular Irish singer, and his wife.l Pat Clary, will make their debut the Keith -Albee circuit in July. The sketch is called "Hoy Wanted." aud Is the first thing Mias Nlchola has done for tho stage since she wrote and produced the irreprraelble Able. She started in tho theater with Fiske O'Hara and is the author of many of his road vehicles. Holbrook RUnn, most recently the villain of Willard Mark’s succcaaful melodrama, "The Dove," which David Belasco produced, ha* gone back into Koith-Albee vaudeville following the closing of that piece. He Is appearing in his former vehicle, a sketch called "Cdhvlct." Although Clifton Webb Is reported to hnve been engaged by Cha*. B. Dillingham for anew musical show, the Ivolth-Alboe Circuit announces that It has routed this popular dancer and his partner, Mary Hay. for a tour of Its leading theaters next season. Mr. Wobb and MJss Hay are abroad nt present, appearing in Purls and at tho watering p luces. Miss Hay is the wife of Richard T'.ari hoi moss and ha* appeared with him In pictures. Van and Schenck attracted considerable attention and obtained publicity for themselvos hurt week when they started a "sufoty first" campaign of the Pittsburgh Railways company by going back to their old Jobs of motorman and conductor and piloting a "safety car" through the downtown streets of the Pennsylvania city. Gus Van was the motorA man while Joe Hohenck gathered tiS the fares, Juat as he used to do in* Brooklyn.

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